--- title: NVIDIA Acquiring Hugging Face For $12.93 Billion | daily.dev description: NVIDIA has agreed to acquire Hugging Face for $12.93 billion. Jensen Huang stated Hugging Face will remain an open, multi-cloud and multi-accelerator platform,... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/nvidia-acquiring-hugging-face-for-12-93-billion-21paqry8y twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: NVIDIA Acquiring Hugging Face For $12.93 Billion | daily.dev og:description: NVIDIA has agreed to acquire Hugging Face for $12.93 billion. Jensen Huang stated Hugging Face will remain an open, multi-cloud and multi-accelerator platform,... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/nvidia-acquiring-hugging-face-for-12-93-billion-21paqry8y og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/21PaQry8Y.png og:image:alt: NVIDIA Acquiring Hugging Face For $12.93 Billion og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # NVIDIA Acquiring Hugging Face For $12.93 Billion **[Phoronix](https://daily.dev/sources/phoronix)** · 1 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary NVIDIA has agreed to acquire Hugging Face for $12.93 billion. Jensen Huang stated Hugging Face will remain an open, multi-cloud and multi-accelerator platform, with no requirement to use NVIDIA compute, and will continue supporting open source and open weight models from across the AI ecosystem. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### How much is NVIDIA paying to acquire Hugging Face? NVIDIA agreed to acquire Hugging Face for $12,930,300,000 USD. Jensen Huang announced the deal, stating that Hugging Face will remain an open platform where developers can choose any models, frameworks, clouds, and computing platforms, with no requirement to use NVIDIA compute for building or deploying through the platform. _Developers tracking AI infrastructure consolidation can follow how the Hugging Face acquisition unfolds on daily.dev._ ### Will Hugging Face require NVIDIA hardware after the acquisition? No, Hugging Face will continue to support multi-cloud and multi-accelerator development and deployment. NVIDIA compute will not be required to build on or deploy through Hugging Face, and the platform will keep supporting open source and open weight models from every model builder across the ecosystem. _Teams choosing AI hardware and cloud providers can watch how this policy plays out on daily.dev._ --- Tags: [#machine-learning](https://daily.dev/tags/machine-learning), [#open-source](https://daily.dev/tags/open-source), [#business](https://daily.dev/tags/business), [#nvidia](https://daily.dev/tags/nvidia) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/nvidia-acquiring-hugging-face-for-12-93-billion-21paqry8y) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"NVIDIA Acquiring Hugging Face For $12.93 Billion","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/nvidia-acquiring-hugging-face-for-12-93-billion-21paqry8y","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/nvidia-acquiring-hugging-face-for-12-93-billion-21paqry8y"},"datePublished":"2026-09-03T12:45:09.981Z","dateModified":"2026-09-03T19:20:20.398Z","description":"NVIDIA has agreed to acquire Hugging Face for $12.93 billion. 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